Question:
Discuss about the Strategic Animation and Emergent Processes.
Strategic management is the process of immersion of core principles that can be used in successful marketing. Strategic management provides help in formulating success for the most of the market-leading brands. Strategic management process is about learning marketing analytics, pinpointing profitable customers and packaging solutions in unmet needs. In this study, Nike Inc. has been chosen in order to show the strategic management process and marketing. In the first part of the study, Nike’s mission statement, vision and values will be stated in order to analyse its issues. In the second part, external environment of the organisation will be discussed with stating competitive advantage of the organisation. In the following section, key issues of the Nike’s will be discussed highlighting firm’s resolution and strategic directives about this. As a business consultant, I am going to explain the strategic analysis of Nike and what should Nike do in order to solve the key issues in strategic management.
Nike Inc. is an American Multinational Company and it is working in designing and developing and manufacturing footwear, accessories and apparels. Nike was established in the year 1964 and the founders of the organisation were Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. Nike has its headquartered in Washington County. Nike serves in worldwide basis and it mainly sells the footwear, athletics shoes and sports equipment. Revenue of the organisation was US 33 billion dollars. As of now, Nike is the largest supplier of apparel and athletic shoes in the world. Total equity of the organisation is 12.707 billion US dollars and a number of employees are working in the organisation are 62,000 as in 2016. Nike offers mainly sports equipment and also they offer baselayers, cleats, shorts, jersey, footballs and skateboarding (Nike.com, 2017). Nike is operating on the worldwide basis and almost in more than 160 countries. Nike has its outlets in six continents and it has become extremely popular among common people.
Nike is world’s one of the popular brands and Nike’s management uses the objectives and goals in order to meet the target of the organisation. Nike brand’s core values are mainly authenticity, performance, innovation and sustainability. Nike is fostering towards to provide the culture of invention. Nike’s major values are products and it wants to provide experiences and services to today’s athletes in solving their issues and for the next generations. Nike wants to do sustainable business, executives and leaders of Nike want to create opportunity and inspire the employees to give their best.
Nike’s vision is aiming towards Corporate Social Responsibility and its vision is to help the consumers grow in a sustainable economy where people, planet and profit are in a balance. Therefore, the components of Nike’s vision are mainly related to helping Nike’s management, customers and sustainable economy. Nike follows CSR technique to provide benefits to a planet, common people and earn advantages from these.
Nike’s official mission statement is about bringing inspiration and innovation to each athlete in the world (Nike.com, 2017). Nike clarifies that within everyone, there is an athlete.
The mission statement of Nike represents Nike’s strategic goal to reach each sports person in the world to offer, shoes, apparel and sports equipment market. Nike wants to inspire each sportsman to thrive for continuous improvement. Nike’s mission statement mainly strives for innovation and emphasises to inspire sportsman.
Nike’s mission and vision statement clarify that Nike wants to grow in the market keeping in mind of CSR and innovation. Nike wants to inspire athletes to improve. The short-term goals of Nike are to develop in the Asian market and to improve the product lines for the women. In long-term goals, Nike aims to become future in footwear and apparel market in the global market. CSR techniques of Nike can provide sustainable innovation to firm and it would be relevant in many more years to come. The strategic direction of Nike is to involve community and community have been unifying force of Nike (Peppard & ward, 2016). In addition, Nike’s brick and mortar store are in the testing ground in the global market and if it becomes successful, Nike can reach more customers in the global market. This ambitious plan will provide more opportunity to the investor to invest on Nike.
Stable government and political environment of any country provide better help for an organisation to survive. However, business environment can differ from one country to another. In case of New Zealand, it has stable government and government provides help in providing assistive rules and regulations to the business. In New Zealand political change happens in every three years and labour laws are strict. Tax affairs are not critical in New Zealand. Nike is a global organisation and it has business in more than 160 countries and New Zealand provides trade freedom to business that comes there to business.
The Economic factor is related to the world economies and it decides the brand performance. Economy decides the customers’ purchasing power and a brand cannot expect high profitability if the customers are cutting cost (Hill & Jones, 2013). In case of Nike, it provides footwear and apparels that come under the costly products in world market. Nike has been observing development since 2011 in the economy and Nike’s revenues see gradual growth. In the year 2011, it was 20.9 billion US dollars and in the year 2016, it became 30 billion US dollars. In New Zealand, per capita income of the country is high and purchasing capability of New Zealand is high. An inflation rate of New Zealand is low and it shows that people can purchase luxury products. GDP per capita of New Zealand is 28610 dollars. New Zealand CPI (consumer price index) inflation has reached around 2.7% (Barney, 2014). Nike’s business can be stable in New Zealand market as New Zealand currency is not fluctuating.
Nike sells the products for athlete and apparel of sportsmen. Socio-cultural factors of people can impact on the purchasing power. In a global context, purchasing behaviour varies in eastern and western part of the world. As stated by Eden & Ackerman (2013), the trend of ‘atheleisure’ is new and people are into this. Nike is competitive brand and it has a global presence. This brand awareness creates an impact on people and in the Olympic season the sale of Nike gets higher. In New Zealand, the population is not very high, however, the people are healthy and life expectancy is high (81 years). In New Zealand, rugby is most popular sports, apart from this, Cricket, Soccer and basketball are also famous. At present, Nike uses women labour and Nike accelerates the employees’ quality of life.
In recent time, social media brings change in business and in the lifestyle of the people. Nike is a global brand and it has a strong foothold in technology and in social networking platform as well. Moreover, Nike uses high technology in manufacturing the products and Nike also uses external suppliers. In the areas like distribution and outlets, Nike uses technologies. In New Zealand, people know the use of technologies and use of the internet is excessive in New Zealand.
Sustainable business is one of the major factors in Nike. They believe in CSR and they take measure to do environment-friendly business. Global warming is a recent issue that creates a lot of fuss over the business and Nike does not do any harm to biodiversity and animals in doing the business (Wheelen & Hunger, 2017). The business model of Nike does not do any pollution as they take measure in maintaining habitat.
In doing the business in global aspect, Nike has to follow the employment regulations, competitive regulations and product regulations. However, each country has different business rules, Nike has to follow these. In doing global business, patents infringement is another issue what Nike has to check. In the Asian market, government red tapes and local regulations are major hindrance to do business. In New Zealand, health and safety laws are important and New Zealand has curbed the corruption, it can help Nike to do business.
Nike’s biggest strength is that it is extremely competitive organisation having a tagline of ‘Just Do It’. Nike has extremely transparent brand awareness and its global presence makes the brand familiar with customers. Nike’s products are the symbol of quality and it is visible in any sports, this strategy provides brand awareness (Burgelman, 2015). Moreover, Nike tries to outsource its production to facilitate its overseas business and Nike does not have any manufacturing outlets of them. This strategy helps the brand to design maximum products and it can save their labour costs.
Nike is a huge name in footwear business and its footwear market provides lion share in business profitability. However, in recession time, if footwear industry sinks, Nike will be in trouble. In addition, Nike does not have any physical manufacturing aspect; however, negative publicity in sweatshops can destroy the brand image of the organisation. Nike does its business with the retailers and those retailers can stock other companies’ products as well. In this regard, the business may get lacked. Nike can open their exclusive retail stores. In Asian markets, Nike is perceived as a premium brand with costly products, it is only accessible to a niche market.
The opportunity for Nike is now emerging market in China and India. Nike tries to open up its market potentiality in the Asian market with new pricing strategy. In addition, apart from footwear, Nike can diversify its business to apparel, clothes and signature perfume as well. This strategy can give better revenues (Tallman & Koza, 2016). Nike brand is taken as the value for money offering and Nike does use the wastes from regular production as well.
As Nike is a global organisation, it faces the threats from currency fluctuations. In the global market, Nike has been facing the issue of competition from other global footwear companies and local companies as well. In the market, there are various alternative brands available, Nike’s price sensitiveness can pose threat to the firm. In addition, Nike has a global supply chain that has to face international trade practices. Nike has to face threat from labour strikes, overseas location issue and geopolitical events.
This force is low as Nike makes its products in more than 40 countries and it has more than 622 factories. The individual suppliers of Nike do not have the strength to make any difference for Nike and suppliers switching cost cannot impact on Nike’s business. Nike has control over its suppliers and they can switch to any other suppliers. However, Nike mainly requires the suppliers of finished goods to send this to outlets. Nike has its own Restricted Substances List in order to follow some guidelines.
There are many international brands present in the global market; however, Nike does not change its pricing strategy. Nike provides quality products to the customers and switching costs of customers are low as other branded companies give same pricing (Distelhorst, Hainmueller & Locke, 2016). Nike mainly provides emphasis on performance and design of the products.
Nike is in footwear and apparel industry and it shares large market share in athletic footwear that gives high-quality products. In order to compete with Nike, the investment will be large. The new company has to start its business as a local brand and Nike itself a global brand. Production of Nike is high and marketing needs high capital investment.
Competitive rivalry in the global market is high as Nike has competitors like Adidas, Reebok, Puma and Under Armour. These brands have a large name in the market and they manufacture similar kinds of products like Nike. Rivals in the market do heavy marketing and sponsorship to increase brand awareness. The top players in the market are high and competition is intense (Grant, 2016).
In the global industry, many other companies are present that make similar kinds of products like footwear, apparels and sports equipment. Nike’s quality products have their own market and other local companies make substituted products, however, they cannot match with Nike. Nike’s marketing strategies and sponsorship create brand awareness that provides support to survive in the industry.
Nike has been facing the issues of inventory management in last few weeks and Nike lost approximate of 100 million sales. Nike has been facing the challenges of product failure and inventory issue is dangerous for a firm like Nike. Nike is facing the issue because of streamline supply chain and manufacturing process that they decided to use new software technologies. Nike fails to maintain the gap between supply and demand with production costing. Nike mainly takes the finished products through manufacturing facilities that are located across the globe. Nike needs to supply the finished products to the retail stores in worldwide and Nike needs to resolve the logistics chain (Rosenbusch, Rauch & Bausch, 2013). Nike’s inventory control software cannot do the justice to Nike as Nike presents in more than 160 countries and prediction of the software is not matching with the actual production of Nike. Nike uses the inventory control software named forecasting and implementing new system created the issue to Nike in order to get the provided data. The software is not fixed with bugs and material managers are facing issue to get reorder points.
Nike has the large share in the footwear industry; however, it has been struggling with apparel industry as consumers are not willing to pay more in the apparel industry. Nike’s merchandise stores are facing the issue as customers are not visiting the stores and franchise of the stores can face bankruptcy. In the year 2016, the report showed that the apparel industry might get higher with 3%, however, the in last three months of 2016, Nike stores clothing and accessories section watched falling down of 5% sales (Nike.com, 2017).
Nike introduced the women athlete wears for the women and in recent time, Nike is facing major challenges in this section. Nike has been producing a large number of women athlete wears since the beginning and they were the only major player in this sector. In the recent time, major competitors are Lululemon, Under Armour, Bander and Sweaty Betty. In a previous time, Nike was only organisation that produced women athlete wears for niche customers. However, competitors in the market share the market percentage from Nike. The branding of competitors is more likely to fun and appealing rather competitive to Nike (Marchi, Maria & Micelli, 2013). The report said that there are 700 options for women to wear sportswear and Nike is losing this percentage of the market.
Nike is refurbishing the style in shoes and apparel products; however, investors are concerned about slowing down of the popularity of Nike’s shoes in the market. In US market, basketball shoe sale fell down almost 14% in last year. In footwear category, Nike has been facing the issue that they need to upgrade their products.
Nike is trying to face the strategic issues and in case of inventory issues, Nike is upgrading the software. In order to run the inventory, Nike needs to handle the issue with understanding the solutions. The management is trying to upgrade the software and merge it with each part of the world. Risk profiling is needed and strategy of Nike is trying to hide the total production. Nike needs to maintain the outlets in which the products are sold. The outlet’s owners are most of the time give better preferences to other products, not the Nike. Nike managers are trying to redesign the distribution channels and supply chain is going to maintain with using the latest technology. In case off Nike, China disappoints Nike as China’s per capita income is high and it has high demand in sports apparel. However, Nike is not managed to outshine in China. Nike has been trying to solve the sweatshop issues and in Bangladesh, Nike had to stop its production. Nike management continues to post on media about the CSR, sustainable innovation, commitments and audit data that create a better image for the customers (Businessinsider.in, 2017). Nike is trying to engage in sustainable innovation technique and this will be a catalyst in revolutionising the business. Nike is trying to solve the environmental issue by minimizing environmental footprint working in energy, chemistry, waste and water. The manufacturing process of Nike has been going through changes. Nike is transforming the products using new technologies with sustainable labour innovation. Nike is trying to invest in those factories where the employees are highly skilled and give value to the workers.
In the year to come, the western economy will go more weak and sluggish and in this scenario, Nike needs to enter the new market like Asian market. Asian countries will see emerging growth in case of the economy and disposable income of the people will rise in next decades. Nike needs to penetrate existing market with existing products with better marketing strategies. Nike has several offices worldwide and organisational structure with reporting structure should be redesigned in order to have better communication. Marketing, operation and human resources should work hard in order to maintain the better organisational culture. In expanding the business, leadership skill and style should confirm the required strategies. Nike is a global company and they can penetrate the market to reach new customers through sponsorships and social media strategy. In market development, in a new market, Nike can take the discounts strategy as lower pricing strategy attracts more customers. Nike needs to keep as a market leader and they need to find emerging countries as business filed.
In today’s world, women are getting empowered and women have been performing great in the field of sports. Women are getting finically empowered also and they are spending more money on health and fitness. Nike should take proactive action in expanding the business in women sportswear and understand the desires of women. Under Armour is one of the biggest threats in this field to Nike, launching new product rages and lower prices can be strategies to snatch the market.
Baby boomers (aged more than 60 now) have more purchasing power and they have to spend on fitness and health. In western countries, most of the baby boomers spend a time in the gym and in exercise. Nike needs to target those and launch ranges of products like shoes, apparels to attract those. Managers of Nike and marketing team should research the consumer behaviour of the baby boomers and understand the needs. Then, Nike could launch suitable products to penetrate the market with new target customers with re-positioning strategy.
Nike is aiming to provide sustainable innovation and inspire the athletes. It would be crucial for Nike to acquire competencies in technological and to develop innovative athlete products. Nike is getting knowledge and its R&D department is working in biomechanics, physiology, motion analysis and sports performances. In this regard, Nike’s qualities of finished products are extraordinary. However, volatile economic condition and inflationary pressure make the price of the products high. Nike takes to be the products for a niche market only. They can shorten the operation of value chain and inventory works in order to reduce the prices of the products.
Conclusions
It has been observed that Nike is a big name in the industry and its strategic direction to take sustainable initiatives to have profitability. The mission statement of the organisation signifies that Nike motivates the athletes and inspires them to go for continuous improvement. Moreover, Nike’s marketing is depended on CSR and it shows that Nike helps kids and community to grow. Nike’s another value is community connections and brings positive social changes. Moreover, sustainable innovation is the new revolutionary concept of Nike and Nike wants to integrate business policies to provide innovative solutions. The strategic direction of the organisation is towards the community engagement and earns profit from the international market. Nike mainly targets to achieve the objectives of the business through premium pricing and long-term financial model with high single digit-single revenue. Nike has powerful competitive advantage and issues that have been faced by Nike can be resolved through authentic and distinctive consumers’ experience.
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